Pop Utopia: Die Flucht in den Traum

“The future belongs to those who believe in the truth of their dreams,” proclaimed human rights activist and former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, in the late 1930s. And the two-part documentary “Pop Utopia” is about the power of dreams. John Lennon continued Roosevelt's thoughts almost 40 years later with "Imagine", a timeless hymn of comfort and hope and its unforgettable lines: "You may say I'm a dreamer. But I am not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us. And the world will be as one.” The documentation illustrates in a captivating way and in large images the power with which music drives these dreams forward.
The first part leads from Martin Luther King's dream of ending racism to the American Dream - the desire to make it from the bottom to the top - to the dreams of the LGBT community for gender equality.

The second part tells about the dream of alternative ways of life, about wild drug experiments of the 60s and 70s, the communal intoxication of sexual liberation and the dream for which young people are still taking to the streets all over the world: living in harmony with nature and saving ours planets. "What a wonderful world", Louis Armstrong sang dreamily, Marvin Gaye gave the environmental topic in the 70s with "Mercy Mercy Me” took on a new urgency, and Michael Jackson, at the zenith of his fame, wrote a veritable hymn to our planet with “Earth Song”. Musicians like Michael Stipe from REM, Jorma Kaukonen from Jefferson Airplane and the politician and former manager of Ton Steine ??Scherben, Claudia, comment on these big dreams of the 20th and 21st centuries – the fulfilled ones, the shattered ones, the older ones and the new ones Roth.

There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.